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Course unit, curriculum year 2024–2025
DATA.STAT.770

Dimensionality Reduction and Visualization, 5 cr

Tampere University
Teaching periods
Active in period 3 (1.1.2025–2.3.2025)
Active in period 4 (3.3.2025–31.5.2025)
Course code
DATA.STAT.770
Language of instruction
English
Academic years
2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027
Level of study
Advanced studies
Grading scale
General scale, 0-5
Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Tapio Nummi
Responsible teacher:
Jaakko Peltonen
Responsible organisation
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %
Coordinating organisation
Computing Sciences Studies 100 %
Properties of high-dim data; Feature Selection; Linear feature extraction methods such as principal component analysis and linear discriminant analysis; Graphical excellence; Human perception; Nonlinear dimensionality reduction methods such as the self-organizing map and Laplacian embedding; Neighbor embedding methods such as stochastic neighbor embedding and the neighbor retrieval visualizer; Graph visualization; Graph layout methods such as LinLog.
Learning outcomes
Prerequisites
Learning material
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
The course will be lectured on academic year 2024-2025 and 2026-2027 in 3rd and 4th period. To pass the course, you must pass the exam and complete a sufficient number of exercises from the exercise packs. Exercise packs will be released during the course.
Completion of all options is required.

Exam

07.01.2025 31.05.2025
Active in period 3 (1.1.2025–2.3.2025)
Active in period 4 (3.3.2025–31.5.2025)

Participation in teaching

07.01.2025 31.05.2025
Active in period 3 (1.1.2025–2.3.2025)
Active in period 4 (3.3.2025–31.5.2025)